Elizabeth man stabbed to death outside NYC club

NEW YORK - A 25-year-old Elizabeth, N.J., man was stabbed to death early today after an argument outside a New York Cirty nightclub, police said.

Jean Muller was stabbed in the torso shortly before 3 a.m. outside Strata, a multilevel dance club and restaurant in the Flatiron district, police said. He died shortly after being taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.

Muller was stabbed after an argument outside the nightclub. Police had taken one person in for questioning early today. No suspects had been immediately arrested.

A woman who answered the phone at Strata said she knew nothing about the stabbing. A telephone message left for club managers wasn't immediately returned.

The deadly stabbing came amid heightened attention to nightclub safety in New York, and less than six months after the City Council passed a measure requiring security cameras at nightclub doors.

The city trained a spotlight on club security after a woman was abducted, raped and killed in February 2006 after a night out at a SoHo bar. An unlicensed bouncer at the bar was charged in her death.